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Definition of unpropitious in English: unpropitiousadjective ʌnprəˈpɪʃəsˌənprəˈpɪʃəs (of a circumstance) not giving or indicating a good chance of success; unfavourable. his reports were submitted at a financially unpropitious time Example sentencesExamples - Our men arrive at an unpropitious moment, just as Robert Mugabe drives a new set of repressive laws through his parliament and puts his foot on the necks of human rights organisations.
- For several centuries Southwark remained rural, partly because it was low lying and unpropitious for building.
- The Blog Quebecois is a good one despite its unpropitious location.
- He took up the canal as an issue at an unpropitious time; he generated so much popular support that the skeptics in the political class had to bow to it; he presided over both the groundbreaking and the completion.
- Sachs argues, that a syndrome of unpropitious circumstances enchain the poorest countries in a hand to mouth existence that prevents them investing in their future.
- Even the Pope feels it is politically unpropitious to avow any commitment to the RCC's official belief system.
- Defection on the way to Americanization was common; vitiated practice and invincible vagueness about belief and conviction were not a cause for alarm but the best that could be achieved under unpropitious conditions.
- No one looks forward to the prospect of internecine warfare at so unpropitious a political moment.
- Not because they drink water, but because the state of mind which makes them dread alcohol is unpropitious to the hatching of any generous idea.
- Despite such unpropitious omens, Raistrick believes that Scotland should ‘go for it’ and submit a bid to stage the 2003 World Indoor Cup, with the two most likely venues being in Glasgow or at Bell's Sports Centre.
- Where the moral formation of a people is deficient, the general will malign, or historical circumstance unpropitious, democracy is quite unambiguously wicked in its results.
- It initially had to be postponed two weeks out of concerns that the country's political chaos were unpropitious to success.
- The situation at the main British landing site at Helles, where the landings had begun at dawn, was equally unpropitious.
- Wang also mentioned that her Chinese name sounds unpropitious.
- However unpropitious the news from Canterbury, however downcast by events at The Oval earlier in the week, Shane Warne was far from a cowed figure at Sophia Gardens yesterday.
- Certainly, the next 24 hours seem unpropitious for any US bombardment: today is Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar and since 1973 one with fateful resonance in Middle East history.
- Cæsar might be ready to go to war; but if the Pontifex Maximus at Number XI opens any one of five pigeons and pronounces its entrails unpropitious, then the legions must stand down.
- Liberal Saudi spokesmen explained that not all were opposed to women's driving, but that the incident came at an unpropitious moment.
- In deeply unpropitious times, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography has refreshed and fortified our sense of what can still be meant by the collective endeavour of ‘scholarship’.
- In 2001 the couple got married in the face of some unpropitious portents.
Synonyms adverse, disadvantageous, unadvantageous, unfavourable, unlucky, untoward, unwelcome
Derivatives adverb Born unpropitiously into a man's world, she plays the role of a woman exuding exemplary tolerance. Example sentencesExamples - Their marriage began unpropitiously when the groom - intending to instruct his bride in her marital duties - took her to watch a display of graphic lovemaking in a brothel.
- The little boy, who slipped and fell so unpropitiously a few days ago, lies fretting in his bed in the cramped room.
- The work begins unpropitiously with the words: ‘After so much that has been written on this subject… it is difficult to say anything new upon the subject.
- Old Church traditions and folklore warned against marrying unpropitiously, and forbade marriage during Lent and Advent.
Definition of unpropitious in US English: unpropitiousadjectiveˌənprəˈpɪʃəsˌənprəˈpiSHəs (of a circumstance) not giving or indicating a good chance of success; unfavorable. his reports were submitted at a financially unpropitious time Example sentencesExamples - Defection on the way to Americanization was common; vitiated practice and invincible vagueness about belief and conviction were not a cause for alarm but the best that could be achieved under unpropitious conditions.
- Cæsar might be ready to go to war; but if the Pontifex Maximus at Number XI opens any one of five pigeons and pronounces its entrails unpropitious, then the legions must stand down.
- Our men arrive at an unpropitious moment, just as Robert Mugabe drives a new set of repressive laws through his parliament and puts his foot on the necks of human rights organisations.
- No one looks forward to the prospect of internecine warfare at so unpropitious a political moment.
- Despite such unpropitious omens, Raistrick believes that Scotland should ‘go for it’ and submit a bid to stage the 2003 World Indoor Cup, with the two most likely venues being in Glasgow or at Bell's Sports Centre.
- Certainly, the next 24 hours seem unpropitious for any US bombardment: today is Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar and since 1973 one with fateful resonance in Middle East history.
- He took up the canal as an issue at an unpropitious time; he generated so much popular support that the skeptics in the political class had to bow to it; he presided over both the groundbreaking and the completion.
- The situation at the main British landing site at Helles, where the landings had begun at dawn, was equally unpropitious.
- In 2001 the couple got married in the face of some unpropitious portents.
- Sachs argues, that a syndrome of unpropitious circumstances enchain the poorest countries in a hand to mouth existence that prevents them investing in their future.
- In deeply unpropitious times, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography has refreshed and fortified our sense of what can still be meant by the collective endeavour of ‘scholarship’.
- Where the moral formation of a people is deficient, the general will malign, or historical circumstance unpropitious, democracy is quite unambiguously wicked in its results.
- Liberal Saudi spokesmen explained that not all were opposed to women's driving, but that the incident came at an unpropitious moment.
- Even the Pope feels it is politically unpropitious to avow any commitment to the RCC's official belief system.
- For several centuries Southwark remained rural, partly because it was low lying and unpropitious for building.
- It initially had to be postponed two weeks out of concerns that the country's political chaos were unpropitious to success.
- The Blog Quebecois is a good one despite its unpropitious location.
- However unpropitious the news from Canterbury, however downcast by events at The Oval earlier in the week, Shane Warne was far from a cowed figure at Sophia Gardens yesterday.
- Not because they drink water, but because the state of mind which makes them dread alcohol is unpropitious to the hatching of any generous idea.
- Wang also mentioned that her Chinese name sounds unpropitious.
Synonyms adverse, disadvantageous, unadvantageous, unfavourable, unlucky, untoward, unwelcome
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